First member of Pistonheads?

[andyr]

I'm not the first member, but I probably joined a couple of months after it started up.

But I have only just found out that pistonheads used to be the online forum for Evo until it was shut down.

But I'm sure I remember the forum was originally called PetrolHeads.com - but they had to shut it down and rename it. Then we had to move our logins to Pistonheads. I never knew the reason other than they said "legal reasons" at the time. But maybe it was because of the Evo forum.

Anyone know the original history ? I've come over all curious.

[Krikkit]

There's a collecting cars podcast when Harris interviews Petrol Ted, worth a listen

[donkmeister]

255 months? One of the old guard for definite, TVRs were still current models then!

I'll bet that several generations of in-jokes have arisen, been used, got the sour-faced peeps in a tizzy about how "it's not funny and never was" and later been lost to the annals in that time...

I shall hammer a frozen sausage into my goatee-bearded director tonight and toast your good health, sir.

[andyr]

Yes, TVR ownership brought me to the forum and I worked in IT. Bought my first TVR in 1995 and then the second in 1999.

I had no idea the Petrol Ted podcast existed. Just listening to it now. The forum was pretty wild back then - I remember people getting peoples IP addresses and trying to work out who you were. Back then there weren't too many people online and most of us were IT workers so we knew what we were doing !

[Pothole]

I've been here for a while, but I don't remember it not being Pistonheads.

[LostM135idriver]

You used to be able to access the forums through severs URLs including petrolheads and pistonheads. I think I first joined in 2003 or 2002. I have, er, misplaced several logins since and was once banned at my own request so I would stop fking posting and write my PhD thesis.

Winged horse of rafdug and carrera996’s cleaner etc etc.

[Ouroboros]

I remember mirror sites, pistonheads but specific forums by new website addresses.

[bad company]

Yep, largely TVR biased when I joined.

[andy ted]

I am assuming the number after memberid in the address bar if you click on your name is roughly the order that people joined? lowest I could find was PetrolTed as you would expect!

eta I am 15452 which was in March 2002 (where has the time gone!)

[andyr]

Pothole said:

I've been here for a while, but I don't remember it not being Pistonheads.

I joined when it was Petrol Heads. But we had to rejoin Pistonheads IIRC. But that was 21 years ago. But i'm pretty sure that's what happened.

[Ouroboros]

https://web.archive.org/web/19990428033711/http://...

[andyr]

andy ted said:

I am assuming the number after memberid in the address bar if you click on your name is roughly the order that people joined? lowest I could find was PetrolTed as you would expect!

eta I am 15452 which was in March 2002 (where has the time gone!)

Yeah, I'm number 594

But I remember being annoyed about having to re-register.

I'm currently having some fun going back through my original posts....

[Leicester Loyal]

Lowest number that had the URL working, member number 11.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?h=...

[Matt99man]

andyr said:

I'm not the first member, but I probably joined a couple of months after it started up.

But I have only just found out that pistonheads used to be the online forum for Evo until it was shut down.

But I'm sure I remember the forum was originally called PetrolHeads.com - but they had to shut it down and rename it. Then we had to move our logins to Pistonheads. I never knew the reason other than they said "legal reasons" at the time. But maybe it was because of the Evo forum.

Anyone know the original history ? I've come over all curious.

This does ring a bell. I have to say I joined over 20 years ago reading up on TVRs. It took me a further 13 years to buy one!!!

[LostM135idriver]

Leicester Loyal said:

Lowest number that had the URL working, member number 11.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?h=...

It also used to be possible to find interesting forums by the same technique

[williamp]

Been here 20 years last July. Only been banned from one thread. Must try harder...

[Pothole]

andy ted said:

I am assuming the number after memberid in the address bar if you click on your name is roughly the order that people joined? lowest I could find was PetrolTed as you would expect!

eta I am 15452 which was in March 2002 (where has the time gone!)

Blimey, if that's a thing I'm 4206

[Phil Dicky]

Number 16596 here..been hete ages, back when TVRs turned up in fields.

[andyr]

Leicester Loyal said:

Lowest number that had the URL working, member number 11.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?h=...

Says member since 6th June 2011 - are you sure your script is correct ?

[Hoofy]

Don't remember it being linked to Evo.